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Failures of the Wii U - Sports
Cordova, TN; November 5, in the year of our Lord 2014--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is taking a good look at the failures of
the Wii U. Family Friendly Gaming is planning multiple articles
in this series. The first failure of the Wii U we are looking at
is Sports. Why have the sports games failed so miserably on the
Wii U? Multiple third party developers have tried sports games
on the Wii U. Those franchises did not earn sequels on the Wii
U. Instead sequels to those franchises appeared on other systems
like the Xbox One, and Playstation 4. New sports games are also
appearing on the Playstation 4, and Xbox One. Not on the Wii U.
Nintendo’s latest home console system has been left out. Why?
Family Friendly Gaming reached out to multiple companies who
published sports games on the Wii U. A variety of questions were
asked. The biggest question was why these sports games were one
and done on the Wii U. After a healthy amount of time, and check
backs, there were no responses. Family Friendly Gaming went as
far into investigative journalism as we are allowed by the law.
There is an eerie air of silence on this matter. The facts
pretty much speak for themselves. It is always nice to receive
official confirmation. Quotes showing some of the behind the
scenes is also appreciated. Despite our best efforts we were
stone walled.
Family Friendly Gaming went to the VGChartz website and compared
totals of sales of the sports games. Madden NFL 13 sold 2.7
million on the Xbox 360, 2.4 million on the Playstation 3, 465K
on the Wii, and 78K on the Wii U. It is pretty clear why the
Madden NFL series was not continued on the Wii U. FIFA Soccer 13
did a bit better on the Wii U selling 182K. Nothing near what
happened on the Xbox 360 (5 million), or the Playstation 3 (8
million). Also nowhere near the 658K of sales on the Wii. The PC
even edged out the Wii U with 378K in sales. Similar results can
be found on NBA 2K13. The Wii U sold 47K, the Wii sold 373K, the
PS3 sold 2.3 million, and the Xbox 360 sold 2.8 million. The Wii
U did beat out the PC with 17K in sales. The sales for Need for
Speed: Most Wanted tell the same kind of results. The sales of
sports games on the Wii U were horrendous.
Where does the blame lie? Do you put it on Nintendo? The third
party developers? The gamers? The system itself? Where the blame
lies for the failures of the Wii U is something that will be
debated for some time. All that Family Friendly Gaming knows for
sure is families into sports games are passing on the Wii U
versions. They may even be passing on the Wii U itself. The lack
of sports games on the Wii U is going to help this quirky little
system onto its eventual death spiral. That is the end result
for any system that can not produce good sales of sports video
games.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming